Example sentences of "attempts [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they are not random errors : they grow out of her particular approach to spelling , and suggest that she may have trouble in the future because of a weak visual memory and her attempts to compensate for this are reckless and haphazard . |
| 2 | Its definitions of femininity as at the same time an artefact and an essence are blatantly incompatible , and its attempts to account for all aspects of subjectivity in terms of fixed gender categories , inadequate . |
| 3 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
| 4 | One of the earlier attempts to account for this residual precession was by the astronomer Le Verrier , to whom I shall introduce you more properly in Chapter 13 . |
| 5 | McCallum ( 1976 ) and Sargent ( 1976b ) are other attempts to test for rational expectations within a simple macro-model of the economy . |